Data Recovery from Windows 7 Hard Drive

Windows 7 has brought several significant changes as compared to the earlier versions of operating systems. It helps the users to organize their everyday tasks by making the interface look more attractive and simple. Windows OS includes various features to improve overall system performance and access speed to ensure a better reliability and user experience. In spite of all these benefits, you might still face data security issues while working with Windows 7 computer.

Consider a scenario where you thought of reinstalling Windows 7 OS as you have some troubles working with system due to its improper operation. However, during the process of re-installation, it displayed two options “Upgrade” and “custom”. Without paying much attention, you pressed “Custom” option. Later, you found that the files and folders which you have saved in your system have been erased completely. Situation became worst when you have not taken backup of hard disk data before re-installing.

It feels terribly bad the moment you see that files and folders which you have been saving since long are gone forever. However, as you have solution for every problem, you can relax and find out an accurate way of how you can get back data from Windows 7 hard drive. Usage of good data recovery software is perfect choice to bring back your lost data from Windows 7 hard drive in this case. Before proceeding to the details of data recovery tool, it is essential to know the scenarios that would bring about data loss from Windows 7 computer. They are as listed below:

  • Unbootable OS: Data loss happens when Windows 7 OS fails to boot due to boot sector/MBR corruption, corrupted boot loader, invalid device drive update etc
  • Windows 7 Crash: The Windows 7 operating system may crash at any time either due to severe file system corruption, application malfunction and hardware conflicts
  • Inadvertent Formatting: Mistakenly formatting any hard drive partition while re-installing OS or re-partitioning hard disk can result in data loss as formatting erases all files from hard drive partition and creates new file system
  • Other Facts: Windows 7 automatic updates, infection of hard drive with computer viruses and worms, damage of partition structure, sudden power surges while accessing data and other facts may lead to loss of valuable data

Even though Windows 7 has made data backup so easy and simple, users often forget to backup their precious data and many times even after maintaining backup of important files, they may not restore it properly. Under such situation, the only way left with them is to rely on effective software like Yodot Hard Drive Recovery to rescue their data from Windows 7 system.

Why Yodot Hard Drive Recovery software?

Yodot Hard Drive Recovery is an ultimate recovery tool for all Windows users. This software empowers you to retrieve data from lost, deleted or formatted partition during re-installing operating system, crash of Windows 7 OS or when OS fails to boot. It completely scans the hard drive irrespective of the capacities to locate and recover various file types from hard disk. Other than Windows 7, you can perform file recovery from hard drive running on Windows 8, Vista, XP, Server 2003 and 2008 operating systems. Moreover, you can bring back deleted, lost or missing data from external hard disks, USB drives, flash memory cards, iPods, FireWire drives, etc on Windows 7 OS by using this tool.

Guidelines to Recover data

  • Download and install hard drive recovery software to the healthy computer or laptop
  • Then disconnect the hard drive from computer from where you lost data and connect it to healthy Windows PC
  • Run the software and follow the onscreen instructions as shown by this software
  • Select any option from the two options i.e. “Partition Recovery” and “Formatted/Reformatted Recovery”
  • The software now displays all the drives present in your computer
  • Select the drive from where you want to recover files and click on “Next” button
  • The software starts scanning process and displays all the recovered files in two view types namely “Data Type” and “File Type”
  • Choose files by making use of these two view types
  • View files before saving by utilizing “Preview” option
  • Finally save retrieved files to the desired destination location on your Windows computer

Points to Keep in Mind:

  • Maintain backup of important files and folders on daily basis
  • Before formatting the partition, double check it and make sure you are not formatting wrong partition
  • Do not add anything to the partition from where you lost files

Other Popular Software

Yodot Photo Recovery (Windows)

Recover and restore deleted photos lost from your digital camera memory card or the images from your Windows PC. The software can recover all popular image types including popular audio and video files.

Yodot Mac File Recovery

The only undelete application for Mac that can recover deleted files from HFS+, HFSX partitions on Mac. The software also has the ability to recover lost files using RAW signature method.